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Working with Text
This tutorial will show you how to change the default font sizes, colors, faces, etc, of your website or page.
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Cool Bullet Tips
Using Bullets in HTML - Giving shapes, alphabets or roman numerals properties to bullets using the <ul> or <ol> tags.
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Bold, Italics, Underline
BOLD Text can be accented in many different ways. The first of these is BOLD. Bold is symbolized by a in front of the text you want bold, and a at the end of the area you want bold. Inserting text into your file that is surrounded by the bold tag will accentuate the text. This text is bold. This text is normal. ITALICS Text can be made to stand out by using ITALICS. This causes the text to slant. The tag is a simple in front of hte text that you want italicized and a at the
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Font, Size, Breaks and Alignment
FONT SIZE
We are going to learn font attributes The first attribute is size.
Size can use the Heading tag or the Size Attribute tag,
You do not need to memorize these sizes. Most web developers guess at sizes or use a size chart. You should have an idea of the sizes though.
HEADING
Headings are used to capture attention on pages. Headings goes from being the largest and being the smallest. Headings should be ordered from largest to smallest on the page. Enter
being the largest and being the smallest. Headings should be ordered from largest to smallest on the page. Enter
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Text Formatting List
Yep, there sure are a fair few tags you can use to format your text. Many of these tags create similar results, and a few are new in HTML 4, and so you won't see their effect until your browser begins supporting them. You should learn the differences between logical and presentational formatting tags too.
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Special Characters
There is a huge list of extra characters and symbols in existence that couldn’t be crammed onto a keyboard, so HTML allows you to use them through a series of special codes commonly known as “ampersand characters” or “character entities.” You can create these characters by starting with an ampersand (&), followed by a few letters, and ending with a semicolon (;). For instance, the entity © creates a copyright symbol ©. All entities are case sensitive. There are also numerical
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Web Typography
The fonts you use for your website are an important decision, as they will often reflect your site’s tone and affect its visual impact. Typography is an interesting field if you can appreciate the skills that go into the design of a typeface. Below is an introduction to typography, starting with font classifications and then going into the practicalities of online text.
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Text color flip in DHTML
The Goodies e-mail box has been pretty full lately asking how to change the color of a hypertext link when the mouse passes over. Before the advent of DHTML, about the best answer I could give to get this effect was to make the link an image and get the effect through an image flip JavaScript.
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Change the color of text
n order to change text colors, you will need two things: 1. A command to change the text. 2. A color (hex) code. The color codes, as I said above, are technically called hex codes. Use that term at your next cocktail party and impress the hostess. The codes are not too user friendly, and you'll need a chart to tell you what code makes what color. Well, gosh! I happen to have one right here: Click to go.
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Changing fonts
This is very important! A text font command will only work if the font you call for is loaded on the computer displaying the page. For example, you head to one of those million-font sites and download a really neat but obscure font face. You load it onto your system and set it in the code. One your computer the text font will display just fine. Not so on just about every other computer in the universe. The font face isn't loaded onto those computers.
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